<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good point Stefi,<div><br></div><div>That's the brainstorming working, you wrote about geographical balance and I imagined other approach related. </div><div><br></div><div>I Agree that geographical balance is a silly way of making decisions, but geographically speaking is interesting way to manage the budget, and it would be considered.</div><div><br></div><div>E.G. for this Buenos Aires meeting, is much more cheaper for me to go, than you or Bill, the airfare for me is around U$ 400,00 on other hand Dublin airfare is relatively cheaper for you and expensive for me. Take this concept, is interesting to use the piggy bank to cover the cheaper airfare and ICANN slots to expensive ones. </div><div><br></div><div>Make sense?</div><div><br></div><div>Joao Carlos </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Em 13/03/2015, às 09:58, Milan, Stefania escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">My take on things (which doesn't concern me specifically, and not in this case. Read: I am not trying to get a free trip here) is that geographical balance is a silly way of making decisions. NCUC needs to support people who do tangible, much needed policy work, and, in secon<font size="3">d instance, work that supports the constituency as a whole (website, translation, etc)</font><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having said that, geographical balance and rotation are good principles that should come in only as a secondary option-- mean</span><font size="3">ing, when we have satisfied the needs of policy advocacy, which is the primary task of the NCUC (geographical </font>representation<font size="3"> is an add-on, as I see it).</font></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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